Common Name:
Mexican Orange
Nine species of mostly evergreen, aromatic shrubs. Leaves opposite or nearly so, most palmate. Flowers in axillary clusters, 4-5 each sepals and petals, 8-10 stamens. Fruit leathery, 2-valved capsule. Native to Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico.
Choisya: after Jacques Denis Choisy (1799-1845), Swiss botanist.
Pronunciation:
CHOIZ-e-a
Family:
Rutaceae